--- title: "Meliha Yetisgen — author profile and papers" description: "Meliha Yetisgen, University of Washington: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Meliha Yetisgen # Meliha Yetisgen Meliha Yetisgen has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/); often with [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/), [Mari Ostendorf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mari-ostendorf/), [Özlem Uzuner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ozlem-uzuner/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 current affiliation [University of Washington](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · Seattle United States [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002548520) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-9811) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002548520) · [116 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002548520) · [1,401 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002548520&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/#papers) · 21 citations in our library · 1 more work in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4799](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/48/#star-4799) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Meliha+Yetisgen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Meliha+Yetisgen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Meliha+Yetisgen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Meliha+Yetisgen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2014–2026 · 83 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2014–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏥**University of Washington Medical Center** Seattle · United States 2016 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00wbzw723) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Summarization 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yim-2026-morqa-benchmarking-evaluation-metrics-medical/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Automatic scores like BLEU, ROUGE and BERTScore are poor judges of free-text medical answers. Many different answers can be equally correct, and a reply that shares wording with the reference can still be clinically wrong. The authors present MORQA (Medical Open-Response QA), a bilingual English–Chinese benchmark for… 2. **[Identifying Imaging Follow-Up in Radiology Reports: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional ML and LLM Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2026-identifying-imaging-follow-up-radiology/)** *(2026)* Radiology reports often recommend follow-up imaging, but these recommendations frequently go unacted upon, and hospitals rarely track whether the recommended exam was ever done. 3. **[RadTimeline: Timeline Summarization for Longitudinal Radiological Lung Findings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-radtimeline-timeline-summarization-longitudinal-radiological/)** *(2026)* Radiologists and clinicians must follow how lung findings change across a patient's successive imaging reports. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/) ×2 - [Mari Ostendorf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mari-ostendorf/) - [Özlem Uzuner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ozlem-uzuner/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read).